Artificial fish-bait



F. DUBROW.

' ARTIFICIAL FISH BAIT.

APPLICATION FILED APH.I4.1920.

Reissued Oct-- 11, 1921. 15,204.

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' IBEDERICK DUBBOW, OI SAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA.

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Toolltwhom it concern.

Be it known that FREDERICK Dunnow, a citizen of the United States, residln at Sausalito, in the county of Marin'and tate ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Artificial Fish-Bait, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide an artificial fish'bait or spoon which will be of great efficiency in catching fish, and which can be readily adjusted to hold hooks of diflerent sizes, and to catch different kinds of fish.

In the accompan in drawing, Figure 1 is a side view of the evice loo ing at. its inner side; Fig. 2 is a similar view looking at its outer side; Fi%.r3 is a longitudinal, central section thereof; i 4 is a cross section on the line 4-4 of ig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a cross section on line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates the main body of the spoon, which, in general form somewhat resembles a greatly elongated bowl of an ordinary spoon, having a considerable curvature in cross section and a sl' ht curvature in lon 'tudi'nal section. The ont end or nose of t e spoon is apertured, as shown at 2, to permit the attachment thereto of a common swivehng connection 3, which can also be connected to a fishing line. a The s oon diminishes in width to the rear, and t on at the extreme end is extended in width sharply, as shown at 4, on each side, formin a tall, said extended rtionsbeing s ira in form and resemling ropeller b ades. By reason of these propel er-shaped extensions, the spoon is 'ven a rotary motion as it is drawn through t e water or as the current of water flows past it,. thereby imparting to the spoon the ap arance of a small live fish.

In t 'e center of the narrowest ortion of the spoon there is formed a longitudinally extendi slot 6, of suflicient wi th only to receive tfierethrough the shank 7 of a hook 8, and the spoon is grooved in its outer side to the rear of said slot, as shown at 9, and on its inner side to the front of said slot, as shown at 11, and in its axial line immediately in front of said oove 11 the spoon is formed with a lon 'tu inal series of holes 12, all of said holes ing of such size as to receive a screw 13.

To attach .a hook to said spoon, th dfl,. i

Reissued Oct. 11, 1921.

Original No. 1,984,022, dated larch 18, 1920, Serial No. 192,054, filed September 19, 1917. Application for reinue illed April 14, 1920. Serial No. 373,926

will be used.

I am aware that it is not new to form a metallic bait of the contour resembling that of the body of a fish and having a propellershaped tall, but heretofore, so far as I am aware, such artificial bait has been fiat, and the effect of drawing such a flat body havmg a propiler-shaped tail through the Water has n to give it a simple helical motion about its longitudinal axis. 9

But I have found that the result of drawing through the water, a concavo-convex sheet metal bod having a propellershaped tail such as t at shown herein is to cause the entire body of the spoon to travel in a helical ath, that is, to have a revoluble as well as a ongitudinal motion. The diameter of the helical path traveled by a s n of the size shown in the drawin is a out eight inches. This revoluble mot1on of the artificial bait about an axis outside its body,

as distinguished from a rota motion about the axis of the spoon, great y increases its effectiveness.

I claim:

In a device of the character described, the combination of a concavo-convex elongated plate having a tapering front end and a rear portion tapering to the rear and then extended in width sharply on both sides,

each extension havin a spiral form to form head pressed against said loop.

' FREDERICK innanow.

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